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URL:
https://<root>/services/<ServiceName>.<ServiceType>/changeProvider
Methods:
POST
Version Introduced:
10.9

Access requirements

Required privileges

The Enterprise Administrator API requires privilege-based access. An administrator must be assigned a specific user privilege, or role, to access any given endpoint. Listed below are the user privileges or roles an administrator can be assigned that provides access to this endpoint. If multiple privileges are listed, only one needs to be assigned to gain access.


Tokens

This API requires token-based authentication. A token is automatically generated for administrators who sign in to the Enterprise Administrator API directory's HTML interface. Tokens generated in this way are stored for the entirety of the session.

Those accessing the API directory outside of the HTML interface will need to acquire a session token from the generateToken operation in the Enterprise Directory API. For security reasons, all POST requests made to the Enterprise Administrator API must include a token in the request body.


Learn how to generate a token

Description

The changeProvider operation updates an individual service to use either a dedicated or a shared instance type. When a qualified service is published, the service is automatically set to use shared instances.

When using this operation, services may populate other provider types as values for the provider parameter, such as ArcObjects and SDS. While these are valid provider types, this operation does not support changing the provider of such services to either ArcObjects11 or DMaps. Services with ArcObjects or SDS as their provider cannot change their instance type.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

provider

Specifies the service instance as either a shared (DMaps) or dedicated (ArcObjects11) instance type. These values are case sensitive.

Values: ArcObjects11 | DMaps

f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the changeProvider operation:

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POST /<context>/admin/services/Hosted/TestMap.MapServer/changeProvider HTTP/1.1
Host: organization.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

provider=DMaps&f=pjson&token=IxAYQhLzYLltj1uu7l4eQ0bNjxb2O8uFD2EVSj35okQ-8SNpbJpZ3B6nfG8SU9FskJLWQNLkRrP6xJTZDoDz0n1MhLm7SCNo8VZWZR4RwBWmpQReLg9uMNv8gJB5cazHceuBjXu9kBbUnn6Laq36Z4TTQgfiPd3N2adEGcHKSDX9EwzSqyMg_YA1hjDhDJRn33o3VYiGMriW9i6duYcngjYdwTrVQLh2pOU6NgMmIj84CXeXrvlS0VmIK7e4KvxY

JSON Response examples

The following response indicates that the changeProvider operation was executed successfully:

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{"status": "success"}

The following error response occurs when a provider value that is incompatible with the service is set.

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{
  "status": "error",
  "messages": ["Changing the provider of the service 'TestMap.MapServer' to 'DMaps' is not permitted. "],
  "code": 500
}

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